Smith v. Merck

Almand, Justice.(a) Where one expressly authorizes another to act for him in a particular transaction, the relation of principal and agent arises. Code, § 4-101. “The word ‘agency,’ both in law and as used in every-day affairs, may have various meanings. It may refer, and perhaps most often does, to that relation ‘created by express or implied contract or by law, whereby one party delegates the transaction of some lawful business with more or less discretionary power to another, who undertakes to manage the affair and render, to him an account thereof.’ Burkhalter v. Ford Motor Co., 29 Ga.…